[mythtv] Status of mythtv packaging out of CVS and CVS versioning

Isaac Richards ijr at po.cwru.edu
Thu Nov 11 01:02:46 UTC 2004


On Wednesday 10 November 2004 07:20 pm, Chris Petersen wrote:
> > in the past there were mixed feelings on packaging CVS
> > bits. Personally I think it did benefit the project as more people
> > could switch to CVS and back (only manual labour was to backup/restore
> > the mysql database) and could provide feedback. Also packagers could
> > shake off packaging bugs before the release.
>
> As before, I will put forth my vote in support of this.  I currently
> package my own stuff from cvs, but it's hard to know where new added
> files will be placed in the official packages once they're released.
>
> Axel's naming convention is fine with me (I just use "cvs20041110" as
> the release number, which probably isn't the best way of doing things,
> but it's just me, so I don't care).

Works for me.

Isaac


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